Slow-Cooker Creamy Lemon Herb Chicken

The beauty of firing up your slow cooker is the aroma you’re hit with when you walk in the door at the end of a long day. A smell that says “dinner is ready!” This slow-cooker creamy lemon herb chicken spends all day bubbling along and results in everything you want in a meal: delicious, comforting, and easy. By cooking low and slow, the humble chicken breast is transformed into something that melts in your mouth. Lemon, herbs, and garlic infuse the chicken with loads of flavor with some cream at the end to round out the sauce. 

The trick to getting maximum flavor out of the chicken is giving it a quick sear in butter before it goes into the slow cooker. This step also creates some “stuck-on bits” on the bottom of the pan. The pan then gets deglazed with chicken stock, gathering up all those bits and making the cleanup super-easy. After cooking for hours, the chicken is fall-apart tender while the sauce gets a healthy dose of cream, lemon, and cornstarch to thicken it to a silky texture.

You can do all the prep and even sear the chicken in about 20 minutes in the morning while your coffee is brewing. Then pop everything into the slow cooker, turn it on, and start your day. When mealtime rolls around, you’ll have a dinner that tastes like you spent all day on it. Pasta, rice, or mashed potatoes would all be a delicious bed to spoon this creamy chicken over.

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